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On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 03:20:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> I plan to partition + format the SSD in my new machine very soon. |
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> The Arch wiki has an article on the subject, which says |
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> that recent versions of Fdisk will safely align SSD partitions. |
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> Is this correct ? |
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Yes, but all of this was covered in some detail a few days ago. |
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> My partition scheme is |
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> 1 boot 0,6 0,06 /boot |
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> 2 root 30 3,55 / including opt usr var |
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> 3 swap 4 -- swap |
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> 5 home 30 3,3 /home |
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> 6 portage 15 3,43 /usr/portage (distfiles 2,3) |
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> 7 z 41 1,5 /z |
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> total 121 19,45 |
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If it's a new machine, use a GPT rather than DOS partition table. |
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I prefer to use a small ext2 filesystem for PORTDIR for speed and set |
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DISTDIR somewhere else (a directory in /z would make sense on your system |
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as the contents of DISTDIR are fairly temporary) |
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> I use /z/tmp/ for Portage's temporary disk space. |
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> Other items, eg /usr/local/ /usr/src/ wb on the HDD. |
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> I plan to put /tmp/ on a ram disk. |
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If you have enough RAM, use tmpfs for /tmp and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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